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Student art work.

Artwork created by students and given to Mary Johnston. Includes correspondence, hand made cards, drawings of Mary and more.

Johnston, Mary

Sterling Avenue School students.

One photograph of students from Mrs. Anderson's class out front of Sterling Ave. School. Students are identified on the verso as: Bechtel, Maxine, Bricker, Gladys, Cressman, Leona, Creven, Jim, Daniels, Leona, Diestelmeyer, Ken, Guse, Alfred, Hager, Bert, Heimbuker, W., Hopsetter, Earl, Hunas, Elmer, Karn, Helen, Karn, Stewart, Keuhl, Geare, Leuning, A., Parker, Marian, Rich, D., Schmidt, Art, Steebing, Ken, Tupman, Robert, Uhrig, Reich, Wagner, Dalton, Wenzel, Harold, Williams, Williams, Edna, Wimmer, Hattie. The teacher is identified as Mrs. Anderson.

Johnston, Mary

Staff photographs.

Photographs of staff at Brighton, Winston Churchill, Keatsway, and MacGregor School as well as administrative staff of the Waterloo County of Board of Education.

Johnston, Mary

St. Jerome's College.

One photograph of St. Jerome's College, now the Faculty of Social Work at Laurier University.

Johnston, Mary

Speech.

One speech by Mary Johnston, possibly given on the occasion of her retirement. She discusses the developments and changes in Waterloo from her childhood to present day.

Johnston, Mary

Slate pencils.

One box of unused slate pencils, likely made of sandstone, used for writing on slates.

Johnston, Mary

Slate and slate pencil.

One school slate with a wooden frame and an accompanying slate pencil. A note on the slate indicates that it was used by Henry B. Bowman (1900-1991), his father Abraham Bowman (1874-1964), Henry's grandfather Levi B. Bowman (1851-1927) and Henry's great-great-grandfather (1789-1866).

Bowman, Henry

Slate.

One school slate with a wooden frame and fabric accents.

Johnston, Mary

Slate.

One school slate with a wooden frame and fabric accents used by Henry B. Bowman during the years 195-1908 while a student at Central School in Waterloo.

Bowman, Henry

Slate.

One school slate with a wooden frame.

Johnston, Mary

Six Retiring Women Teachers Honoured by the Waterloo County Board of Education.

Contains news clipping (Waterloo Chronicle, Sunday, 23 May 1973, p. [1]) reporting that Mrs. Grace Scott, Mrs. Alice Bullard, Velma Samuel, Mrs. Irene Fretz, Mrs. Gladys Hudelmaier, and Mrs. Sally Beatty, who are retiring and have 160 years of teaching experience between them, were honoured by the Waterloo County Board of Education at a tea organized to mark this occasion.

Johnston, Mary

"Seen and Heard: K-W, District Women Teachers Attend Leadership Workshop".

News clipping (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Monday, 5 June 1972, p. 28) reports on a leadership workshop sponsored by the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario. The names of teachers attending from Kitchener-Waterloo are provided along with information on the themes to be covered in the workshop sessions.

Johnston, Mary

Scrapbooks: Leadership Books.

This series contains fourteen scrapbooks all of which are assigned individual file numbers. These scrapbooks contain materials relating to the W.C.W.T.A.'s leadership training courses. Materials take the form of b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, correspondence, lists of course participants, course application forms, course schedules and outlines, course handouts, course evaluation sheets, meeting agendas, and ephemera.

Johnston, Mary

Scrapbooks: F.W.T.A.O./W.C.W.T.A. Scrapbooks.

This series contains twenty-three scrapbooks all of which are assigned individual file numbers. The first sixteen scrapbooks in this series have been numbered consecutively by the compiler of these scrapbooks as follows: 1-5, 7, 9, 10-11, 13-18, 20 (some scrapbooks are missing). The remaining scrapbooks have not been numbered by the compiler but also relate to W.C.W.T.A. and F.W.T.A.O. affairs and activities. These sixteen scrapbooks include materials relating to meetings, workshops, conferences, leadership courses and other events of the W.C.W.T.A. and of the F.W.T.A.O. Materials take the form of b&w and col. photographs, newsletters, meetings agendas and minutes, corrrespondence, ts. lists, reports, news clippings, and ephemera.

Johnston, Mary

School openings and anniversaries.

Programmes for the official openings and anniversaries of schools in the Waterloo District School Board. Includes: Keatsway, Glencairn, Central Public School (Galt), Pioneer Park, The Education Centre, Northlake Woods, W.T. Townshend, Lester B. Pearson, John Darling, Driftwood, Brighton, Westheights, Westvale, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Ziegler, Country Hills, Sandowne, MacGregor, Centennial, A.R. Kaufman Public School, Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School.

Waterloo District School Board

School notebook.

One school notebook kept by Elma Schaefer while a student at Waterloo. Includes spelling, reading and dictation lessons.

Schaefer, Elma

School notebook.

One school notebook kept by Elma Schaefer while a student at Waterloo. Includes artwork and writing.

Schaefer, Elma

School notebook.

One school notebook kept by Elma Schaefer while a student at Waterloo. Includes artwork, mathematics and writing.

Schaefer, Elma

School notebook.

One school notebook kept by Caroline Schaefer while a student in Waterloo, in the year 1894. Includes topics such as geography and dictation. Caroline indicates in the notebook that is she is in the

Schaefer, Caroline

School notebook.

One school notebook kept by Elma Schaefer while a student at Waterloo. Includes artwork and writing.

Schaefer, Elma

School notebook.

One school notebook kept by Idessa Eichler while a student in Waterloo. Includes topics such as poetry, chemistry, and geography.

Eichler, Idessa

School notebook.

One notebook kept by Idessa Eichler for grade Senior 2, in 1922, in Waterloo. Includes notes for literature, spelling, writing, language, mental arithmetic, geography and arithmetic.

Eichler, Idessa

Review examinations junior third class Alexandra School.

Review examinations for the junior third class Alexandra School, for the years 1934 to 1941. Includes student names and grades for courses arithmetic, literature, geography, composition, reading, writing, spelling, and history.

Waterloo District School Board

Retirement congratulations.

Certificate presented to Mary Johnston upon her retirement from teaching by Walter McLean, the MP for Waterloo.

House of Commons

Retirement congratulations.

One framed item of correspondence from David Peterson (Premier of Ontario) to Mary Johnston upon her retirement from 37 years of teaching.

Government of Ontario

Retirement and Mary Johnston Public School.

One scrapbook maintained by Mary Johnston with materials on her retirement, and the naming of Mary Johnston Public School in her honour. Includes photographs, correspondence, ephemera, and more.

Johnston, Mary

Retirement.

One scrapbook with photographs and captions from Mary Johnston's retirement parties.

Johnston, Mary

Publications, Printed Materials: Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

Includes publications and printed items of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association including issues of a newsletter, a guidebook, a submission made by the W.C.W.T.A. to the Social Development Committee of the Ontario Legislature, and a report on the teachers' provincial protest action of 1997.

Johnston, Mary

Publications, Printed Materials: The Waterloo County Board of Education.

This series contains publications and printed materials issued by the Waterloo County Board of Education. These materials include booklets, an educational position paper, reports, a submission to the Standing Committee on Social Development of the Ontario Legislature, telephone directories, and serial publications.

Johnston, Mary

Publications, Printed Materials: Other Educational/Teachers' Organizations and Associations.

Includes publications and printed items of the various educational and teachers' organizations in Ontario including the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the Ontario Public School Men Teachers' Federation, the Teacher's Superannuation Commission and other organizations. Materials in this series include serial publications, reports, and informational booklets.

Johnston, Mary

Publications, Printed Materials: Government of Ontario.

This series contains government publications including educational legislation, curriculum guidelines, school programme requirements, reports and booklets on various topics, as well as a news release and issues of a journal. Included in this series are publications of the Government of Ontario, as well as of the Ministry of Education of Ontario, and of the Ministry of Education and Training of Ontario.

Johnston, Mary

Public school general register of attendance, classification, promotion and destination of pupils : Waterloo Central School Inspector's Register, 1882.

Inspector's Register for Waterloo Central for the year 1882. Includes names of teachers and students, as well as student grades for the courses spelling, writing, reading, arithmetic, history, geography, grammar and literature and whether students were promoted to the next division. Set in to the front of the book is a report from the inspector to the Board of Public School Trustees of Waterloo outlining the results for 1882 as well as loose sheets of results for the years 1871, 1872, and 1873.

Waterloo District School Board

Public school general register of attendance, classification, promotion and destination of pupils : Town of Waterloo Inspector's Promotion Register, 1883.

Inspector's Promotion Register for the Town of Waterloo for the year 1883. Includes names of teachers and students, as well as student grades for the courses reading, penmanship, spelling, geography, history, arithmetic, grammar, composition and literature. Also includes a sheet of paper totalling grades for all class levels for the year 1884 written on Waterloo Chronicle letterhead.

Waterloo District School Board

Public school daily register for recording the attendance, recitations and deportment of pupils, 1879-1882.

Daily register used as an examination register for students in Waterloo County School for the year 1881. Includes names of teachers and students as well as student grades for courses geography, grammar, reading, spelling, writing, composition, arithmetic, history, hygiene, geometry, penmanship and algebra for the years 1879-1882.

Waterloo District School Board

Public school daily register for recording the attendance, recitations and deportment of pupils in the Waterloo Public School, Inspector's Examinations Register, 1884.

Inspector's Examination Register for Waterloo Public School for the years 1884-1885. Includes names of teachers and pupils, as well as the pupils attendance, age and grades in classes such as reading, spelling, writing, geography, arithmetic, history, algebra, composition, literature, and grammar.

Waterloo District School Board

Professional Organizations

Materials relating to professional organizations of which Mary Johnston was a part. These include the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association, the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, Association of Catholic Principals, North Waterloo Federation of Women Teachers, the North Waterloo Teachers Institute and the organization for Women in Education Administration.

Johnston, Mary

Professional development.

Scrapbook kept by Mary Johnston detailing professional development events attended and organized by her. Includes photographs, newsletters, correspondence, and ephemera.

Johnston, Mary

Professional development.

Materials kept by Mary Johnston relating to her work on various professional development committees.

Ontario Ministry of Education

Prize list annual school fair.

Prize lists for the annual school fair Waterloo Township held at schools Bloomingdale, Parkway, Centreville, Natchez, and Bridgeport.

Waterloo District School Board

Post Haste.

Contains incomplete set of issues of the F.W.T.A.O.'s newsletter Post Haste including: no. 11, 14, 18, 1987; no. 10, 1989; no. 8, 1991; no. 1-3, 1997; no. 4-6, 1998.

Johnston, Mary

Physical education grades.

Two sheets of grades for male and female students for physical education for students in grades 7 and 8 in Mr. Chambers and Mr. MacEachern's classes.

Waterloo District School Board

Photographs and Realia

Photographs and realia documenting the life of Mary Johnston as well as the history of education in the Waterloo Region.

Johnston, Mary

Parkway School students.

One photograph of a group of school children in front of Parkway School, also called Separate School No. 5 Waterloo County.

Johnston, Mary

PAR.

Contains single issue of PAR - no.2 (Feb. 1997) - the newsletter published by the F.W.T.A.O.

Johnston, Mary

O.T.F. Reporter.

Includes 2 issues of this quarterly publication including: O.T.F. Reporter 22 (winter 1972) entitled "The Ideal Teacher", and O.T.F. Reporter 23 (spring 1972), entitled "The Teacher and the Law".

Johnston, Mary

Orbit 37.

Includes single issue of this journal - v. 8, no. 2 (April 1977).

Johnston, Mary

Ontario Teachers Strike to Oppose Anti-Strike Bill (Bill 274).

Contains news clippings which appeared in The Globe and Mail focusing on Ontario teachers' opposition to Bill 274 designed to prevent mass resignations submitted by teachers from taking effect on Dec. 31, 1973. This bill would instead impose compulsory arbitration to resolve disputed contract issues. Actions taken by teachers to oppose this bill included a province-wide strike on Dec. 18, 1973.

Johnston, Mary

Ontario Teachers' Federation: Meetings.

Contains minutes of a meeting of the Representatives of Affiliate Organizations in Waterloo County, Apr. 17, 1967. Also includes supporting documents relating to this meeting in the form of a memorandum issued by the O.T.F. re proposed reorganization of schools under County Boards of Education, as well as a rough ts. draft of a brief to regional government drawn up by the Study Committee of the O.T.F.
Also includes a seating plan for an O.T.F. annual meeting held Aug. 20-23, 1985, as well as the "Report of the Teacher Representaives to the Biennial Review Committee on Teachers' Superannuation to the O.T.F. Board of Governor's Annual Meeting, August 20-23, 1985".
Also includes an executive summary of the O.T.F. dated Feb. 12, 1997, in addition to a paper entitled "School Principals and Vice-Principals are Teachers".

Johnston, Mary

Ontario Education.

Contains three issues of the journal Ontario Education including: v. 3, no.5, 1971; v. 6, no. 1, 1974; v. 8, no. 2, 1976.

Johnston, Mary

Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team.

One photograph of the members of the intermediate Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team for the year 1921. Members are listed as Baker, A.W.; Bovis, E.G.; Dickson, W.R.; Felker, S.R.; Fidler, D.G.; Forman, K.W.; Lindsey, B.B.; Smallfield, H.A.; Whitelock, J.E.; Ziegler, C.B.

Johnston, Mary

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